God bless the sane Democrats

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say.

“The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes too big of a lift,” Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said in an interview last week. “I see the cap-and-trade being a real problem.”

The resistance by Lincoln and her Senate colleagues undercuts President Barack Obama’s effort to win passage of legislation that would cap carbon dioxide emissions and establish a market for trading pollution allowances, said Peter Molinaro, the head of government affairs for Midland, Michigan- based Dow Chemical Co., which supports the measure.

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I’ve had a chance to study the cap and trade portion of the House energy bill, and I can tell you that, whether you are for or against regulation of greenhouse gases, the bill’s provisions are an onerous and unworkable approach. I’m glad, and not surprised, to hear that it may die in the Senate.

>It’s entirely possible that blue dog Democrats will save us from this horror of a health care bill–Rightwingsparkle

Last 4 years was horror and the economy is proof of it.

From CNN Poll ( Not scientific at all, Sarah Palin included )

Do you believe “death panels” are part of the proposed health care reforms?

Yes 23% 53267

No 65% 149901

Huh? 12% 28754

Liberal media coverage is the blame for majority of people not caring what Sarah Palin thinks?

Sanity isn’t evident from some town hall rabble rousers. The guy with lung problems yelling in Senator Arlen Spector’s face. “GOD WILL JUDGE YOU ONE DAY!” That’s painful for him to hear simply becoming a Democrat. GOD won’t judge the smoker who killed himself early?

Who judges Big Energy, cap and trade their profits isn’t happening any time soon. It was onerous and unworkable ENRON couldn’t be stopped by President Bush quickly enough. He was a Texan and that Texas Corporation was going buck wild creating fraud.

The oil spike prices through manipulation while Bush was President. In 2000 he was celebrating Auto Manufactures big engine gas guzzlers rolling off the assembly lines. 8 years later GM is barely hanging on from that poor leadership decision.

When the “Energy Business” is glad,environment isn’t.

I’ve had chance to study House of Representatives in totality with all the things they propose in the past few years. Under Dennis Hastert leadership, pitiful. Rubber stamp Republicans for Bush initiatives. They changed the stamp to No these days without proposing anything.

Maybe when Congress is back to work, cap and trade can be worked out, because doing nothing doesn’t solve Big Energy pollution problems. The initiative is to slow pollution in years ahead, what is wrong with that idea?

Regulation of green house gasses is against John McCain’s proclamations, how many times did he say “deregulation” in the last decade. He is an automatic No when the proposals reach the Senate. Maybe he will be outvoted.